The ocean rocked their little vessel with choppy waves and ripping winds. Planes roared above them, their engines only adding to the cacophonous roars of the ships and other, amphibious, vehicles. In one such contraption were five young women in camouflage uniforms, crowded around a large piece of parchment.
"Okay!" said their aptly-named leader, Sergeant Rainbow Dash, her multi-hued hair billowing in the wind. "Remember the mission: securing the package is the most important part of this whole thing and Celestia's asked for us personally to do the job!" The boat lurched, and the gang was forced to regain their balance. "That means everything else is secondary!" she added, eyeing her blonde friend.
Applejack nodded solemnly, rubbing a picture of a young, red-haired girl with her thumb.
"Division A is taking the left flank, Division B's got the right!" Dash shouted as the wind picked up.
“Where does that leave us?” asked the tallest one present, brushing a lock of amethyst hair out of her eyes.
“We’re going straight up the middle,” the sergeant answered boldly. “Divisions A and B are going to try to make a funnel for us to fight through, but it’s all we’ve got to work with.”
“Great.” Rarity rolled her eyes. “Send us into the fire again please, Princess!”
Dash nodded, folded up the map and placed it in her breast pocket. She looked around at her team with pride as the whistle blew and a voice came through her radio.
“T minus thirty seconds to shore.”
In the corner of their tiny vessel, Corporal Pinkie Pie sat with her bright pink hair tucked under a camouflage cover and counted her rifle cartridges with a toothy grin. “I hope changelings like beach parties," she said manically.
As they drew closer to their destination, loud pings could be heard amongst the cries of desperate fighting. Dash grabbed her rifle off its mount and stood up. “Everybody ready?” Nobody answered audibly, but each of them grabbed their weapons and fell in behind her. “Good,” she said, pleased. The boat jerked as it hit the earth. Slowly but steadily, the bow began to drop, revealing the scene ahead.
In the distance stood a tall, black, spiky structure that could be very well have been described as a fairy-tale castle from the nightmare realm. In its tallest tower lay their objective, just past the miles of barbed wire, explosive mines, sand pits and hundreds of soldiers. Bullets whizzed through the air, creating small explosions of sand on the beach before them as men and women on both sides fell to the ground, bleeding and crying.
Rainbow Dash stepped up onto the platform and gazed up at the tower. “Hang in there Twi,” she said to herself, checking the safety on her rifle. “We’re comin’ for ya.”
It actually felt pretty natural.
Nice job on these.
I liked it. Even for such a short fic is really sets the mood. Maybe I've seen to many movies about D-day, but I could really see what happened.
Grey skies, rain and thunder, stormy sea and a big black castle just on the mainland. A bird eye view that shows us how many small ships are heading towards the beach (the answer is a lot) and how many enemy changelings are on the beach (it looks like the enemy is in the minority). Zoom onto 1 ship where the five are preparing for battle (they are not alone and this boat is filled with background characters). The conversion from the story is happening. Dash looks towards the beach (and castle), the camera pans away from the boat towards a bird eye view again. Thunder lights the whole changeling army. Behind the hills are many more changelings waiting, invisible for the Equestrian forces. Suddenly it's obvious that the Equestrian forces are in the minority.
Did I just type that? That was surprisingly easy...
Vague humanized TwiDash is vague and humanized. Nicely done
D-DAY. this remained me of it.
That, or he could've been in the amphibian with the others.
It felt really fluid and very intense. The only thing that threw me was the comment about lavender hair. I thought you had meant Twilight since Lavender is more of a light purple.